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  1. capologist

    More Vujanic

    There is a little truth to the statement, but just a little. Assists are more rare in Euroleague than in the NBA. Dragan Lukovski leads the league with 5.44 assists per game. (Cota is second.) Even so, Vujanic’s 2.3 average is particularly low. The leader board lists the top 15 players in...
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    All-Star picks

    Well, it is just a computer thing. It’s not like the machine actually watches the games. On balance, Steph’s stats (20.1ppg, .434 FG%, .318 (3P%), 8.8apg, 3.4rpg, 1.8spg, 3.1tpg) are slightly better than LeBron’s (20.4ppg, .417 FG%, .273 (3P%), 6.2apg, 5.9rpg, 1.6spg, 3.9tpg). Also working...
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    Jan. 19th, First-half surprises & disappointments

    The hard part is getting steals and blocks. Very few players do well in both. These are the players who have had at least 135 steals and 135 blocks in a season since 1988-89: <table><tr><th>player<th>&nbsp;<th>season<th>&nbsp;<th>stl<th>&nbsp;<th>blk<tr><td rowspan="3"...
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    All-Star picks

    Actually, that leaves room for Iverson and Carter, both of whom are going to be voted in. So you still need to take out another player to make room for James. Why do you think he won’t make it? I’ll be surprised if the Western Conference coaches don’t select him as a reserve. Actually...
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    All-Star picks

    I agree that he won’t make the team, but I disagee with the reason. Steve Francis is not “awesome.” He’s just going to be voted in by the fans, and it’s ridiculous. And Marcus Camby, who spent most of last season on IR. And Earl Boykins. There are eight players averaging at least 15...
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    All-Star picks

    NBA.com has posted Charles Barkley’s, Kenny Smith’s, and Magic Johnson’s picks for the All-Star team. Note the situation with the Western Conference guards. Barkley picks Carmelo Anthony and Peja Stojakovic. Smith also picks Anthony and Stojakovic. Johnson picks Kobe Bryant and Stojakovic...
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    Amare's Chest Banging

    Oh, I don’t think it took that much balls. It’s not like Patterson was going to get violent or something. He only gets violent with women.
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    Amare's Chest Banging

    I think the crowd was reacting to the spectacular block, not the throat-slitting motion. By the time Amare made the throat-slitting motion, the ball was at mid-court and heading in the other direction, so I doubt many people in the arena even saw the gesture.
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    Amare's Chest Banging

    Maybe it’s the music. ;) I’m very amused by what I assume is unintentional irony in the AWA musical selections. A while ago — I don’t remember whether it was last season or earlier this season — they started playing the “Oh oh oh” remix of “Kernkraft 400” at the start of the 4th quarter...
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    Marion frustrated with officials

    Jake is one of the biggest whiners in the league, and he gets absolutely no respect from the refs.
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    Lampe expects to play Monday - article

    Well, looking at the listings on Patricia Bender's page, the youngest team listed for the last ten seasons is the 2000-01 Chicago Bulls. Somewhat surprisingly, this was the season before they added two prep-to-pro rookies (Chandler, Curry).
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    Plan B

    We probably won’t have the MLE for the upcoming season. If you drop below the cap by more than the amount of the exception, then you don’t have the exception.
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    Chaney +2 assistsants fired ; Wilkens hired

    Quinter has been working with the Suns for years, mostly in a scouting capacity. He has been showing up as an assistant coach on the team’s NBA.com roster page at least since the beginning of this season.
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    Googs to Utah before deadline rumor

    Even a 17th pick is worth far more than $5.66M, as long as you’re making decent picks, which the Suns almost always do. With the 17th pick in the 2003 draft, we took Zarko Cabarkapa, whose rookie contract gives him to us for four seasons at a total of $6.10M. If we had not drafted him, do you...
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    Googs to Utah before deadline rumor

    OK, near as I can figure, as of the trade deadline, Googs will have $3.42M remaining on his contract, and Clark will have about $1.46M. The trade kicks Googs’s salary up by 15%, so Utah ends up having to pay him $3.94M. But they get rid of the $1.46M obligation to Clark and they get $3M in...
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    Article-Charlotte Could Play a Role in Landing Kobe

    Yeah, but they’re also half morons trading for the doofus in the first place, so it all balances out.
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    Steve Nash Back To The Suns?

    Actually, you can save a step. Murray and Bacon were both in Wild Things. So, who was the first Sun to be in a movie? According to IMDB, before Space Jam, before Forget Paris, <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0425556/">KJ</a> was in a film called <a...
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    If we took the top five players under Shaq, Duncan, Garnett, Kobe, T-Mac.....

    I'll take Jason Kidd, Ray Allen, Andrei Kirilenko, Jermaine O'Neal, and Ben Wallace. Can't argue with Yao or Pierce. Don't really like Nowitzki, though. Defense wins championships.
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    Cavs send us a Toronto pick instead of their own?

    Thanks for the correction. Another one: my list of trades in which we have received first-round picks omits the one we made last week. It's a little too soon to evaluate how that trade turned out, so it doesn't really figure into the discussion.
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    Steve Nash Back To The Suns?

    Yeah, I think that’s the same calculator that gives them "Mike D'Antoni once coached Nikoloz Tskitishvili + D'Antoni now coaches the Suns = The Suns are going after Tskitishvili."
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    Cavs send us a Toronto pick instead of their own?

    People sure do seem desperate to give away picks. Draft picks don't grow on trees, you know. They're valuable. Also worth noting — These are the deals we have made in the last 10 years in which we have traded away first-round picks:Dan Majerle and a #1 for Hot Rod WilliamsWesley...
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    Cavs send us a Toronto pick instead of their own?

    When you have a player like Duncan, you don’t need a lot of high-priced talent around him. Just surround him with decent role players, and you’re going to be a competitive team. The Spurs also have the advantage that they found their two best supporting players, Ginobili and Parker, with...
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    Cavs send us a Toronto pick instead of their own?

    For us, I hope, it has come to a stop. One of the advantages of clearing out the huge contracts of Steph and Penny is that there is now much less pressure on us to dump contracts.
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    Cavs send us a Toronto pick instead of their own?

    Maybe. He shows promise, but I’m not yet convinced that he’s a sure thing.
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    Interesting Tidbit on Jersey Numbers

    Poor Dice. We must really be making him feel welcome. “Uh, Antonio? Jeff Hornacek called. He wants you to stop wearing #14.” (McDyess turns in his #14 jersey for a #4.) “Uh, Antonio? Skeeter Henry called...” (He turns in his #4 for a #4.4<sup>4</sup>.) “Uh, Antonio? cap...

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